[Cynnabar] The Thrones

[dove]

Very Tuchux of you...I aprove.

-dove

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Greg Less <greg.less at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All-
>
>    Here's the full story/confession:
>
>    Two weeks ago at the business meeting I proposed $2000 for new thrones
> as an experiment. We were discussing 1) whether or not the meeting minutes
> were an effective means of communicating the business of the barony to those
> who can not attend the Monday night meetings and 2) whether or not the three
> week discussion period was necessary for completing financial transactions.
> The impetus was from some of the questions that were posed at the Fireside
> Chat with the Candidates, as well as declining Monday Meeting attendance.
>
>    The idea (which was all mine, and I take full responsibility for it) was
> that we would take something relatively reasonable, such as new regalia for
> the Barony, and propose an outrageous budget for it. The choice of thrones
> was arbitrary. We would put this in the minutes and see if anyone noticed.
> If it was noticed, I wanted to see what the response would be and how it
> would be delivered (either by increased email traffic, or by higher meeting
> attendance). Also, depending upon the repsonse and how long it took for
> people to become engaged I figured that we could get a feel for whether the
> three weeks of discussion prior to making any business decisions was still a
> valid time scale.
>
>     Fruitful discussion has taken place and I think we know now that the
> group is reading and paying attention to the minutes (or at least to Sir
> RanthulfR's responses to the minutes!) and that they are NOT okay with
> budgeting such a huge expenditure without a much better proposal in place.
> It did, however, take more than one week for this to come to a head, thus
> proving (?) that the three week discussion period is slow but most likely
> necessary.
>
>     Basically, this tells me that the system that Cynnabar has had in place
> from the beginning is a good one - A proposal needs to be well thought out
> and thoroughly presented to the group for expenditures, the details of the
> proposal need to be disseminated to the group for reflection and discussion,
> and three weeks is a good time period for this discussion to be fully hashed
> out.
>
>    I apologize to any and all that feel that there was malice in these
> actions. That was not the intention, I assure you. If you would like to
> discuss this more, please feel free to contact me directly.
>
>    Also, for the record, while the current thrones could use some
> maintenance and TLC, they are not in dire need of replacement.
>
>
> Yours,
>
> Baron Gregoire.
>
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